Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 21, 2024

As diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts have come under attack, I wonder if higher education leaders shouldn’t begin to evolve the concept before policymakers strip away every tool we have to provide supports for students of color. Instead of focusing on inclusion, perhaps we should be talking about integration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

For institutions looking to measure their DEI efforts, the tool of choice has typically been campus climate assessments, surveys of groups like faculty or students that provide an aggregate picture of the impact of a college’s endeavors. The instrument also revealed that some basic DEI practices were less common.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Pay raises for University of Wisconsin employees are under threat of being blocked by Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, who is asking the school to cut diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and staff by $32 million, the Associated Press reported. Democratic Gov. Republican Govs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2024

Similarly, many university administrators, including education deans, disseminated statements illustrating their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Republican legislators have waged anti-DEI movements, claiming myths that DEI efforts are ineffective, violate free speech, and are discriminatory towards white students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

One of the effects of the Ohio bill would be the prevention of schools from mandating any DEI training except for school accreditation, federal requirements, professional licenses, or grants. Students and staff would not be required to describe commitments to specific concepts or principles as part of hiring or admissions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Supreme Court’s decision this year to ban race-conscious admissions and “the attacks that we're seeing subsequently on DEI in the states,” it’s crucial to assess the campus racial climate today, said Hernández-Reyes. “In states, gauging their thoughts on what their respective campuses could be doing better.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

It is therefore time to connect the dots among efforts to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities, overturn race-conscious admissions, and bring back standardized tests. By being proactive with admissions, recruitment, and advising, however, we can reduce this risk. Humans are no different.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The ruling sent medical schools across the nation scrambling to adjust admission standards to abide by the new law of the land. had already outlawed the use of race in their admissions long before this ruling. We had become complacent for a long time in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), doing the same-old, same-old.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

All faculty and administrator searches must have a DEI advocate who completes specialized training. Through the Alliance to Accelerate Excellence in Education, CSUSM guarantees admission to eligible high school students in 18 districts, many with majority Latinx populations. The grant is a California Student Aid Commission program.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2023

Supreme Court decision expected to strike down race-conscious admissions policies, a new report from the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University is offering more evidence of what a post-affirmative action landscape might look like. As the world of higher education awaits a U.S. Dr. Anthony P. points, to 6.3%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Supreme Court decision outlawing the use of affirmative action in the higher education admissions process continue to ripple across the nation. Harvey Proactive, targeted zip code-focused recruitment combined with direct admissions. The shock waves that erupted following the U.S. Dr. William B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

University of North Carolina , the cases that could re-shape the role of race in admissions or even ban it entirely, are not likely to be known until next June. Could it prevent DEI offices from funding ethnic student resource centers and programs? The Supreme Court’s decisions in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v.

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Higher Education Inquirer

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

History and Structure of Selective Admissions Folks are not privy to the inner workings of admissions, especially at elite and brand name schools. The College Admissions Scandal (aka Varsity Blues) gave us a small window into this structure, but that story will soon be forgotten.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Supreme Court slammed the door on race-conscious admissions practices this past June, Americans still broadly believe in the importance of diversity in higher education. There was also a clear consensus that race-conscious admissions accomplishes its goals. I think that’s a bit of a surprise.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

America’s racial tension has been heightened by increasingly conservative Supreme Court rulings, book bans, and an increasing number of bans on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programming in states across the country. As the ruling affects the admissions process and not the recruitment process, Dr. Anthony E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

Art Coleman, co-founder of EducationCounsel LLC The Supreme Court’s June ruling ending race-conscious admissions practices left vast patches of uncertainty in its wake. Coleman took attendees through a typical admissions process under the new regime. Did the decision cover race-based scholarships?

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Here is a short list of US universities with legacy admissions. California banned legacy admissions for private colleges in 2024. Supreme Court ruling against college admissions policies that consider race. For a more exhaustive list, visit edreformnow.org. For a more exhaustive list, visit edreformnow.org.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

People are already declaring a “post-affirmative action era” while still weighing the scales of benefit from new approaches to equity, justice… and admissions. Herein is the substance of responding to public DEI resistance and stakeholder scrutiny. There are tools to help those in relentless pursuit of a common purpose.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Williams, a director of student affairs and DEI for graduate programs in sustainability management and sustainability science, tours the country and tells people about what the Ivy League school’s fellowship can offer them. Admission into an SPS master’s degree program does not automatically mean admission into the fellowship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

What they are hearing is things like the Supreme Court decision on race-conscious admissions, anti-DEI attacks, deliberation on test-optional and legacy admissions, crippling student loan debt. “We know, empirically, the value of a post-secondary degree. It still holds up, either through economic or non-economic perspectives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

These are the four pillars of transformation, ingredients critical to the mission of Complete College America (CCA), the advocacy organization working to improve college graduation rates since 2009. Dr. Yolanda Watson Spiva Watson Spiva brought a wealth of knowledge to CCA. Yolanda went to Spelman. It’s always, ‘Why couldn’t we do this? Or try this?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The administration also made sure that Hall wasn’t assigned an unreasonable amount of administrative or DEI work. “We “[Cluster hires are] a really interesting way to try to make departments and fields more equitable.” For Steele, being part of a cluster hire made her experience at Rochester much easier. “I Dr. Candace N. Hall Dr. Candace N.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As implied by the title of the 359-page document—“Advancing Antiracism, Diversity and Equity Inclusion [DEI] in STEMM Organizations: Beyond Broadening Participation”—the National Academies aren’t just focusing on numerically increasing minority representation in STEMM.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2023

The move comes despite student protests on campus and a fiery public comment portion of the meeting that questioned the actions of trustees on stifling DEI efforts. The office, according to a report delivered at the meeting, has four full-time employees.

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Edu Alliance Journal

APRIL 21, 2025

Selective Admissions: Admission to Davidson is highly competitive (most selective according to Princeton Review and U.S. Davidson practices need-blind admissions for U.S. Although Davidson has invested in scholarships, outreach programs, and DEI initiatives, progress has been gradual. billion as of 2023.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2025

The department is beginning to crack down on all race-related and DEI initiatives across higher education and K12 since issuing an updated Dear Colleague letter last month. Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard outlawing race-based admissions policies in higher education as its legal basis.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

As a young girl who fled her native country’s civil conflict and climbed this country’s academic ladder to become a first-generation college student, her experience in university admissions and governance reflects a similar thread. Jenkins, Bates College (Lewiston, Maine) Garry W. ” Rivera-Mills begin this June.

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Campus Sonar

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

As Lily Zheng explains in this article "Backlash from all directions is often due to DEI initiatives being frames as solutions to individual problems to be fixed rather than to correct for systemic issues at play in an organization.". That’s systemic racism, white supremacy, classism, and gatekeeping in real-time. Focus on Systemic Change.

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University Business

JUNE 9, 2023

It’s a question that Noah Geisel, the micro-credential program manager at the University of Colorado Boulder, asks employers, admissions counselors and all other professionals trying to find the most qualified human among the swaths of faceless applicants—the hay. Would you use a pitchfork to find a needle in a haystack?

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Supreme Court justices heard challenges to race-based college admissions in two cases involving Harvard College and the University of North Carolina. However, colleges may consider race in admissions using “compelling interest.” Now, the future of affirmative action rests in their hands.

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

Following New College of Florida’s board of trustees voting to abolish all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs schoolwide, the DeSantis-backed president has axed its top officer. The three other officers who worked in the now-defunct DEI program were reassigned. “I am the first casualty in many ways.”

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2025

Much of the media was focused on challenges to DEI, the loss of research grants and immigration visits to campuses. College Navigator provides detailed institutional profiles, including enrollment, financial aid, admissions and accreditation data. Quiet unraveling of NCES Few headlines covered the March 2025 layoffs at NCES.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

He proposed defunding DEI efforts and restricting the use of DEI statements in hiring practices, giving boards and presidents the power to review tenure at any time, and requiring that state research universities spend $50 million annually on research related to STEM and business initiatives.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

He said objecting to DEI as a business principle struck him as an ideological attack, adding that demographics are shifting across the U.S. He said objecting to DEI as a business principle struck him as an ideological attack, adding that demographics are shifting across the U.S.—especially We’re very proud of that.

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University Business

JULY 28, 2023

These remarks encouraged leaders to discuss how they can maintain their commitment to diverse admission practices while adhering to the law. Walter Kimbrough, the interim executive director of the Black Men’s Research Institute at Morehouse College, pointed to publicly appointed officials wreaking havoc in the DEI space.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

With standardized testing losing steam and affirmative action ending, admission officers have to adapt new critical frameworks to study potential students’ fit at a given institution. Enter “holistic admission” or “holistic review,” higher education’s biggest buzz phrase in this next application cycle.

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EAB

JANUARY 10, 2023

Gain expert peer advice about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, admissions strategies, and online education. Enrollify : Host Zach Busekrus brings energy and enthusiasm to his conversations with enrollment marketing professionals on topics like parent engagement strategies and DEI marketing gaps.

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